am i ready to harvest? pics

[marble123]

been flowering since august 1st until now (day 69 today). i guess this would be considered a ghetto grow as i used no nutrients lol. i also had a hermie in there that possibly pollenated these too. this is a fire og, i have two of them growing. they're kinda small since we didnt have proper lighting from the get go. but these are the pics of the buds. the top buds are like the length of 1 and half bic lighters

are these ready to be pulled?





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[frikinstein]

Pic num 4 looks to be the closest to being done the other look to be 10 days or so...

 

[marble123]

yeah i was kinda confused because some of the buds have all brown hairs where others do not probably cause of my lighting i guess. sorry mods, i should hav eposted this in the megathread. didnt notice it

 

[KlosetKing]

yeah i was kinda confused because some of the buds have all brown hairs where others do not probably cause of my lighting i guess. sorry mods, i should have posted this in the megathread. didnt notice it

don't worry about it, the mega thread isnt the ONLY place you can ask questions, though FDD's opin is pretty well respected around here (for good reason =D). I would agree with your first responder, and say that the last pic is the closet to done. the rest still have too many white hairs, even if your trichs are changing (get a trich scope, you want to be watching those as well) and keep an eye out for yellowing leaves (assuming youve been flushing and not giving N). ID say maybe another week to 10 days for optimum harvest. personally, that decision always depends on whether iam waiting on the grow for personal or not. if i needed the herb, i bet they'd be lucky to get another 5 days lol

 

[theexpress]

10 more days

 

[RRLBT420]

i harvest my plants when the trichomes are milky-white and the very tip of the plant is just starting to turn amber. letting them all turn amber will increase yield, but the buds always seem to make me more sleepy. i like a more trippy head buzz, so i harvest what some may call "early." i try not to base my judgement off the hairs, as some strains turn red and some do not. my red cherry berry for instance will be 100% red when it hits week 5, but it isn't finished till week 8-9, and my white widow and LSD are finished before even a single hair turns red. hairs are not good indicators of maturity. base your ripeness off the color of your trichomes. if you're more concerned about weight, or you simply prefer the body stone, i would wait about 10 more days to harvest your girls. if you aren't particularly concerned with weight, and you prefer a more trippy headbuzz, i would let them go another 3-5 days. it's more a matter of preference than it is "right" or "wrong"

 

[KlosetKing]

i harvest my plants when the trichomes are milky-white and the very tip of the plant is just starting to turn amber. letting them all turn amber will increase yield, but the buds always seem to make me more sleepy. i like a more trippy head buzz, so i harvest what some may call "early." i try not to base my judgement off the hairs, as some strains turn red and some do not. my red cherry berry for instance will be 100% red when it hits week 5, but it isn't finished till week 8-9, and my white widow and LSD are finished before even a single hair turns red. hairs are not good indicators of maturity. base your ripeness off the color of your trichomes. if you're more concerned about weight, or you simply prefer the body stone, i would wait about 10 more days to harvest your girls. if you aren't particularly concerned with weight, and you prefer a more trippy headbuzz, i would let them go another 3-5 days. it's more a matter of preference than it is "right" or "wrong"

keep in mind you are only tweaking that high. trying to make a heavy sativa a indica high, or vis-a-vis, doesnt work all that well. hairs are not the most accurate to judge by, but trichomes arent always either, or else my plant would have been chopped at week 5 with 50% amber trichs.

each plant is different and needs to be treated at least slightly different. Take ALL things into account, your preferred high, the strain's intended high (sativa, indica, or hybrid) and its overall appearance. Hair color, trich color, calyx swelling, and foliage color changes (yellowing assuming you stop the N and do a flush), are ALL signs of maturity, and need to be all accounted at the same time. Again, my girls would have been done somewhere around week 4 or 5 if i was ONLY looking at trichs, so use your eyes, use your head, and take all signs into account.

 

[jollygreenleaf]

Agreed all around..

FDD's thread is GREAT--use it.

Klosetking gives great advise also. His posts have helped me a lot. One thing I notice on my BLACK JACKS was that, ya the hairs were red and the trichs turned clloudy, but also, like closet king said, the buds changed appearence. Right now all your buds seem to be growing outwards. The leaves, pistols, etc.. all still pointing up and out. One day I noticed my plants seem to "tighten up" and kinda suck in. The leaves pull in to the bud.

Finally, I have posted this elsewhere tonight but I have read in different forums lately that you should go for translucent amber trichs. I know this forum always says cludy and a bit amber but other sites say different. I don't know who is right but I think it was high times magazine where I read transluscent amber trichs is what has won the CC lately. My black jacks had those and it through me until I read that.

 

[KlosetKing]

ah yes transluscent, or 'yellow' stalks as some call them. iam told they usually only pop out in heavy sativas, but it doesnt surprise me that a solid hybrid like a BJ would show them. Interesting notes on your girls as well. Its worth mentioning that mine didn't do the very same thing, yet are the same strain. Always have to keep in mind that each seed had its own dice roll at creation, and are not all 100% alike, even if it seems like they are. Hell even when you can sub categorize it into phenotypes, two plants of the same pheno of the same strain aren't necessarily going through the same chemical reactions, pulling in the same amount of nutes, or even absorbing the same amount of light.

 

[RRLBT420]

ah yes transluscent, or 'yellow' stalks as some call them. iam told they usually only pop out in heavy sativas, but it doesnt surprise me that a solid hybrid like a BJ would show them. Interesting notes on your girls as well. Its worth mentioning that mine didn't do the very same thing, yet are the same strain. Always have to keep in mind that each seed had its own dice roll at creation, and are not all 100% alike, even if it seems like they are. Hell even when you can sub categorize it into phenotypes, two plants of the same pheno of the same strain aren't necessarily going through the same chemical reactions, pulling in the same amount of nutes, or even absorbing the same amount of light.

I agree with this. my white widows look like cousins more than sisters, and they came from a seedbank. one grew it's main bud the size of a football, and had baseball-size side colas, where the other grew much smaller buds. maybe the size of a banana for the main cola, then golfballs for side buds. the smaller one was more potent as well further demonstrating your point.